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Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW

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Title(s)Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging
SchoolSchool of Nursing
Address490 Illinois Street, #122B
San Francisco CA 94158
Phone415-502-7097
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    University of California, San FranciscoPhDSociology
    Columbia University, New York CityMPHUrbanism and the Built Environment
    Columbia University, New York CityMSSWSocial Enterprise Administration
    University of California, BerkeleyBASocial Welfare
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    UCSF Office of Community & Government Relations2025Science and Healthcare Advocates for Research Policy (SHARP) Program
    UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach2024Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Leadership (IDEAL) Academy
    Gerontological Society of America2022Early Career Diversity Fellowship Award, Mentoring and Career Development Technical Assistance
    UCSF School of Nursing2020Distinguished Dissertation Award in Sociology
    UCSF Social & Behavioral Sciences Department2018  - 2019Carroll Estes Scholarship Award
    Wayne State University & University of Michigan2016Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) Summer Fellow
    UCSF School of Nursing2014John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence Student Scholarship Award
    Grantmakers in Aging2014Student Fellow
    UCSF Graduate Division2013Graduate Division Dean's Health Sciences Fellowship
    UCSF School of Nursing2012John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence Student Scholarship Award
    UCSF Graduate Division2012Graduate Division Dean's Health Sciences Fellowship
    UCSF Social & Behavioral Sciences Department2012Carroll Estes Scholarship Award
    Aging and Social Change Research Network2011Graduate Scholar Award
    American Society on Aging2009  - 2010New Ventures in Leadership (NVL) Fellow
    Columbia University2007John and Kathleen Gorman Public Health Humanitarian Award

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    Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW, is an Associate Professor at UCSF's Institute for Health & Aging in the School of Nursing. As a sociologist and gerontologist, they research age-friendly communities, age-friendly health systems, and workforce issues affecting older adults, people living with dementia, and caregivers. Jarmin directs the Community Action Research in Gerontology (CARING) Lab and co-directs the UCSF Emancipatory Sciences Lab. They hold affiliate appointments with the UCSF Healthforce Center, the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Bioethics program, and teach in the Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership (MS-HAIL) Program. Previously, they managed a national workforce initiative at The New York Academy of Medicine's Social Work Leadership Institute. They serve on the boards of the Metta Fund, Community Living Campaign, and California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics. A retired gymnast and former student-athlete, Jarmin still performs the occasional cartwheel.
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    Governor's Task Force on Alzheimer's Prevention and Preparedness Evaluation
    California Department of Public Health 25-10146Jul 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Epidemiology and Program Policy (EPI)
    California Department of Public Health 24-10019Jun 23, 2025 - Feb 28, 2030
    Role: Principal Investigator
    On Lok HIV Caregiver Training
    On Lok Feb 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Planning Grant: Education as Healthcare Intervention Study
    California Health Care Foundation G-33732Sep 25, 2024 - Oct 31, 2024
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Evaluation of a New Cognitive Screening Approach in Primary Care Among Underserved Populations
    California Department of Public Health 24-10004Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2028
    Role: Co-Investigator
    C-CARERS or Centering Caregivers in Alzheimer's Research on Equity, Representation, Services and Supports
    California Department of Public Health 24-10128Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2028
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Report
    California Department of Public Health 24-10222Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2026
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Exploring Opportunities and Appetite to Address Direct Care Workforce Shortage and Needs in California
    Center for Health Care Strategies S1000616-20194Jul 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Aging in SROs: Building Capacity Toward an Anti-Racist and Age-Friendly Praxis
    UCSF Resource Allocation Program Feb 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    The National Dementia Workforce Study
    NIH U54AG084520Sep 30, 2023 - Aug 31, 2028
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Caregivers As Partners in Care Teams (CAP-CT) Program
    U.S. Administration for Community Living 90CGPS0004-01-00Sep 30, 2023 - Sep 29, 2027
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Launching and Empowering a National Age-Friendly Health Systems Research Community
    John A. Hartford Foundation Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2026
    Role: Co-Investigator
    High Road Training Partnerships Resilient Workforce Fund Program: Caregiver Resiliency Teams & Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
    Center for Caregiver Advancement Jun 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2026
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Evaluation of California GROWs: Growing a Resilient, Outstanding Workforce in the Home and Community
    California Department of Aging Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Cultivating Connections: Experiential Learning for Personal, Institutional, and Community Wellness
    UCSF Campus Life Services Dec 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2023
    Replicating the IHSS+ ADRD Training Project: Reducing the Social & Economic Impacts of Caregiving for Older Adults with ADRD in the IHSS System through Training
    California Department of Public Health 22-10079Nov 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    In-depth Analysis on Indiana Adult Protective Services Operational Plan
    Purdue University 20000619Jul 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2023
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Direct Care Workforce Factsheets
    California Health Care Foundation G-32279Jul 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2022
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Openhouse + OnLok Community Day Program
    On Lok May 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    California Partnership for Better Dementia Care
    Alzheimer's Los Angeles 90ADP10035-01-00Jan 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Developing an Operational Plan for California Adult Protective Services Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
    California Department of Social Services 5180-213083Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2023
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Epidemiology and Program Policy (EPI)
    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) 19-10092Feb 29, 2020 - Feb 28, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Reducing the Social and Economic Impacts of Caregiving for Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) System through Training (IHSS+ ADRD Training Project)
    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) 18-10612Jun 28, 2019 - Jun 30, 2024
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures in California: Current Status and Future Projections
    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) 18-10623May 1, 2019 - Jan 2, 2021
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Epidemiology and Program Policy (EPI)
    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) 17-10846Oct 2, 2018 - Feb 28, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Evaluating Dementia Training Programs for Home Care Workers: A Scoping Review. Gerontologist. 2025 Dec 19. Pond B, Neri M, Suarez Vargas K, Yeh J. PMID: 41416910.
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    2. What Matters: Learning From Patients to Transform Age-Friendly Care. J Gerontol Nurs. 2025 Oct 20; 1-3. Yeh J, Harrison JD, Adler-Milstein J. PMID: 41099569; PMCID: PMC12616414.
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    3. Benefit or harm? Arguments for and against early detection of dementia in primary car. Public Policy & Aging Report. 2025; 4(35):87-89. Schickedanz H, Chodos A, Segal-Gidan F, Yeh J. View Publication.
    4. Quality of life outcome measures in original studies of dementia interventions: policy and practice implications. Public Policy Aging Rep. 2025; 35(3):90-92. Bonds Johnson K, Batsch N, Menne HL, Sun K, Siconolfi D, Zagorski W, Perepezko K, Yeh J, Robison J, Noble ME, Baker C, Shih R. PMID: 41163713; PMCID: PMC12560796.
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    5. From 4Ms to 5 domains: ensuring new CMS Age-Friendly hospital measure improves care for older adults. Health Aff Sch. 2025 Oct; 3(10):qxaf184. Adler-Milstein J, Rosenthal SW, Thombley R, Rogers S, Rosner B, Yeh J, Harrison JD. PMID: 41079421; PMCID: PMC12508804.
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    6. The National Dementia Workforce Study: Development of Questionnaires for Home Care, Assisted Living, and Nursing Home Settings. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Nov; 73(11):3344-3353. Spetz J, Wagner LM, White EM, Chapman SA, Chiong W, Friedman EM, Gerlach LB, Harrison KL, Hunt LJ, Lee SJ, Muench U, Possin K, Sideman A, Hickey JVTS, Putthinun P, Yeh J, Sandoval S, Rose A, Rothstein J, Pettit AR, Maust DT, Zimmerman S. PMID: 40891824; PMCID: PMC12407246.
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    7. The Association of Third Places and Violence-Related Adverse Childhood Experiences. Adversity and Resilience Science. 2025. Chabot MJ, Sun D, Reynen DJ, Leff S, Flynn AB, Mitchell C, Yeh J. View Publication.
    8. Data-Driven Decision-Making in Adult Protective Services: Insights from the Identification, Services, and Outcomes (ISO) Matrix Implementation. J Aging Soc Policy. 2025 Jul 10; 1-17. Yeh J, Parks R, Liu PJ. PMID: 40637150.
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    9. Dementia Care Navigation: The Role and Training of Dementia Care Specialists in Managed Care Organizations. J Appl Gerontol. 2025 Jun 11; 7334648251343330. Yeh J, Ross L, Schlesinger J, McLendon B, Flatt J, Hollister B, Cherry D. PMID: 40499074.
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    10. Competency-based training boosts dementia knowledge and skills in home care workers. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Jun; 21(6):e70323. Yeh J, Beld M, Pond B, Neri M, Garcia A, Mata-Pacheco J, Mauricio J, Castanenda M, Eldridge C, Martinez S. PMID: 40538020; PMCID: PMC12179336.
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    11. Outcomes Evidence Must Keep Up with the Implementation of the 4Ms Framework to Ensure Age-Friendly Health System Transformation. Inquiry. 2025 Jan-Dec; 62:469580251334511. Harrison JD, Rogers SE, Rosner B, Martin E, Lin SC, Yeh J, Adler-Milstein J. PMID: 40231623; PMCID: PMC12033401.
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    12. Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities: Urban Ageing and Spatial Justice, edited by Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Sophie Yarker. Dismantling and Rebuilding Praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Toward an Emancipatory Approach. 2024. Yeh J, Greenfield EA, Plasencia MZ. View Publication.
    13. Anti-Asian Hate and the Health of Older Asian Individuals. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Jul 01; 184(7):838-840. Li L, Kang J, Ho M, Li AT, Shih JJ, Yeh J, Smith A. PMID: 38739380; PMCID: PMC11091815.
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    14. From Root Shock to Urban Alchemy: The (Re)making of Urban Space Through the Lens of Black Older Women. Built Environment. 2024; 2(50):296–306. Versey HS, Reyes, Yeh J. View Publication.
    15. "Hate has chipped away at my sense of security": A survey study of the impacts of anti-Asian hate on the health of older Asians. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Jul; 72(7):2174-2183. Li L, Kang J, Nguyen B, Ho M, Li AT, Shih JJ, Kotwal A, Yeh J, Karliner L, Jeung R, Smith A. PMID: 38801317; PMCID: PMC11226351.
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    16. Handbook on Aging and Place, edited by Malcolm Cutchin and Graham D. Rowles. Aging in Third Places. 2024. Finlay J, Cannon M, Meltzer G, Yeh J. View Publication.
    17. "I just can't go back": Challenging Places for Older Americans since the COVID-19 Pandemic Onset. SSM Qual Res Health. 2024 Jun; 5. Finlay J, Guzman V, Meltzer G, O'Shea B, Yeh J. PMID: 38884031; PMCID: PMC11178241.
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    18. Building Back Better: Going Big with Emancipatory Sciences. J Aging Soc Policy. 2024 May 03; 36(3):460-475. Estes CL, DiCarlo NB, Yeh JC. PMID: 36848315.
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    19. California's Direct Care Workforce: Who They Are, the Work They Do, and Why It Matters. 2023. Hunt L, Yeh J, Fix M. View Publication.
    20. Enhancing Dementia Knowledge and Self-Efficacy of In-Home Supportive Services Caregivers Through Online Training. J Appl Gerontol. 2023 04; 42(4):617-626. Yeh J, Pond B, Beld M, Garcia A, Mauricio J, Mata-Pacheco J, Eldridge C, Ross L. PMID: 36482678; PMCID: PMC9996798.
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    21. Emancipatory Visions: Using Visual Methods to Coconstruct Knowledge with Older Adults. Gerontologist. 2022 11 30; 62(10):1402-1408. Reyes L, Shellae Versey H, Yeh J. PMID: 35363865.
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    22. Engagement and Advocacy of Community-Based Organizations Serving Older Adults in Native American, Rural, and Homeless Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Aging Soc Policy. 2024 Nov; 36(6):1626-1638. Yeh J, Holley L, Ford CD, Guest MA. PMID: 36208458.
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    23. Entwined Oppressions: Historicizing Anti-Asian Violence in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era. Public Policy Aging Rep. 2022; 32(3):94-99. Yeh JC, Nham K, Estes CL. PMID: 35996676; PMCID: PMC9384473.
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    24. Age-Friendly for Whom? An Aperture to the Lived Experiences of Older San Franciscans. Gerontologist. 2022 01 14; 62(1):100-109. Yeh J. PMID: 34378780.
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    25. Building an advocacy model to improve the dementia-capability of health plans in California. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 12; 69(12):3641-3649. Hollister BA, Yeh J, Ross L, Schlesinger J, Cherry D. PMID: 34476815.
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    26. Improving End-of-Life Care for Persons Living With Dementia: Bereaved Caregivers' Observations and Recommendations. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 09; 62(3):579-586. Yeh JC, Newman J, Main R, Hunt LJ. PMID: 33556499.
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    27. Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Facts and Figures in California: Current Status and Future Projections. 2021. Ross L, Beld M, Yeh J. View Publication.
    28. Precarity, USA. Generations Today. 2021; 42(1). Estes C, Yeh J, DiCarlo N. View Publication.
    29. Community Gerontology: A Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice on Communities and Aging. Gerontologist. 2019 09 17; 59(5):803-810. Greenfield EA, Black K, Buffel T, Yeh J. PMID: 30124872.
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    30. The Gerontological Imagination: An Integrative Paradigm of Aging by K. Ferraro. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018, 224 pages. Book Review. Social Forces. 2019; soz057:1-3. Yeh J. View Publication.
    31. The Dementia Cal MediConnect Project: Improving dementia care via the California duals demonstration. Generations. 2019; SPRING(Supp 3):73-78. Hollister B, Yeh J, Ross L, Schlesinger J, Cherry D. View Publication.
    32. Generations Can Connect for Empowerment: Five Ways Forward. Aging Today. 2018; xxxix(5):1-3. Yeh J, DiCarlo N, Estes C.
    33. Contemporary Cultural Norms from the Vantage Point of a Younger Woman of Color. Generations. 2018; 41(4):97-103. Yeh J. View Publication.
    34. "I Feel Trapped": The Tension Between Personal and Structural Factors of Social Isolation and the Desire for Social Integration Among Older Residents of a High-Crime Neighborhood. Gerontologist. 2018 Jan 18; 58(1):79-88. Portacolone E, Perissinotto C, Yeh JC, Greysen SR. PMID: 28329804; PMCID: PMC5881710.
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    35. America Must Invest In Its Next Generations. Generations. 2017; 40(4):101-107. Accius J, Yeh J. View Publication.
    36. Building Inclusion: Toward an Aging- and Disability-Friendly City. Am J Public Health. 2016 11; 106(11):1947-1949. Yeh JC, Walsh J, Spensley C, Wallhagen M. PMID: 27715294; PMCID: PMC5055791.
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    37. Architecture, Materiality and Society edited by Anna-Lisa Muller and Werner Reichman. The lure of restoration: Transforming buildings and bodies for ever-longer life. 2015; 119-144. Yeh J. View Publication.
    38. 101+ Careers in Gerontology (Second Edition) by C. Joanne Grabinski. Book Review. 2015. Yeh J. View Publication.
    39. Advancing family health through the Garden of Eatin': on-site food gardens in early childhood education. Am J Public Health. 2015 Apr; 105(4):625-8. Chaufan C, Yeh J, Sigal B. PMID: 25713934; PMCID: PMC4358167.
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    40. You Can't Walk or Bike Yourself Out of the Health Effects of Poverty: Active School Transport, Child Obesity, and Blind Spots in the Public Health Literature. Critical Public Health. 2014; 25(1):32-47. Chaufan C, Yeh J, Ross L, Fox P . View Publication.
    41. Exploring the Associations Between Active School Transport, Child Obesity, and Child Poverty in California. Journal of Behavioral Health. 2013; 2(1):27-34. Chaufan C, Yeh J, Ross L, Fox P. View Publication.
    42. Through their Eyes: Using Photovoice and Photo Elicitation in Research with LGBQ Older Adults. The International Journal of Aging and Society. 2012; 1(3):85-106. Yeh J. View Publication.
    43. The safe routes to school program in California: an update. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jun; 102(6):e8-11. Chaufan C, Yeh J, Fox P. PMID: 22515862; PMCID: PMC3483971.
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    44. Parental Views on Active Commuting and Choice of Mode of School Transport. Journal of Behavioral Health. 2012; 1(1):35-41. Chaufan C, Yeh J, Ross L, Fox P. View Publication.
    45. Public Markets and Community Health: An Examination. 2006. Moon JR, Kraft MK, Brown L, Yeh J. View Publication.
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